THE FLOUTING OF MAXIMS IN JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND MOVIE: PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS

ABSTRACT
RISMAWATI . An Analysis of The Flouting Maxim in Journey 2: The Mysterious Island Movie: Pragmatic Analysis (supervised by Simon Sitoto and Marleiny Radjuni).

This research aims to analyze the types of maxim flouting and explain the reasons for the flouting of maxims performed by the characters in Journey 2: The Mysterious Island movie.

In this research, the writer uses descriptive qualitative method to analyze the data. In more specific, the writer watched the movie, listened the movie conversation carefully, read the movie script, noted the important point of the utterances, and identified the utterance for the flouting of maxim conversation in the movie.

The results of this research show that (1) there are 30 data conversations for the flouting of maxim in Journey 2: The Mysterious Island movie (2) the most dominant maxim flouting is maxim of quality, while the least dominant maxim flouting is maxim of manner. (3) Therefore, there are several reasons for the flouting of maxim in this research; informing, mocking, bragging, surprising, realizing something, hating, assuming, convincing, scolding, and showing irritation.